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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1932-12-30

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1932-12-30, page 01

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Central Ohio's Only
Jewish Newspaper
Reaching Every Home
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
VOLUME XV—No. 105
COLUMBUS, OHIO, DECEMBER 30, 1932
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
By the Way
By David Schwartz
Harry Schwartz Becomes
President of Zion Lodge
No. 62, B'nai B'rith
A Chain Gang Fugitive
I have long wanted to comment on the case of Robert Burns, the chain gang iugitivc from Georgia—because as a native of that state, I was privileged to see sonic of the workings of the chain gang system—hut I was afraj<l I would be denied the opportunity, for want of a Jewish angle.
And yet it appears that there arc all sort of Jewish angles. In this place, I could have fount! a pretext in the fact that it is the Jewish actor, Paul Muni, who plays the stellar role-in Burns' mov¬ ing picturizatioii of his experience.
I5ut there are better Jewish angles than that. There is the Jewish angle in the fact that Burns' leading lawyer at the extradition h^^ring is the Jewish lawyer, Arthur Garfield Hays. There is still another Jewish angle in that one of the principal Witnesses was John Spivalc, whose, recent work "Georgia Nigger" tells the story of the Georgia chain gangs very effectively and very dramatically.
But best of all" is the fact that the very man whom Burns is chargixl with having held up and for which, he was sent to the chain gang was produced at the hearing and his name is Samuel Bernstein, So it may be safely assumed that he is a. Jew.
Jews Plead for Burns It is an interesting fact that while the State of Georgia so relentlessly pursues Burns, the Jew, Bernstein, whom Burns held up, urged before the State hearing, that Burns be not returned to the Georgia chain gang.
In my childhood in Georgia, I used to see these chain gang convicts working the roads. With their heavy shackles— with the man with the whip nearby— and the shotgun. Most of them of course were negroes, and generally as they worked from sunrise to sunset, you could hear them singing some melodies, which to my memory, sounded very much like the negro spirituals.
It was a scene of horror, which left a terrible impression on my mind—and I am thankful that the State of New Jer¬ sey has ^not honored the request of Georgia for the extradition of Burns. The Quality of Mercy But is it not striking that here so many of the principal forces allied in this cfTort to save Burns from a retupi to.the chain gang are Jews? Even the Jew who was robbed. ¦ Strangely enough, we Jews 7'iinnie^ morially hayc been lectured by our. good Christian brothers on being lacking in mercy. Even ouf God it is dinned into our_ears continuously is a God of stern justice, of revenge, and jealousy. . Not by any means as sweet, as merciful as the Christian concept of God.
And yet, it seems to me, that if there is one thing in which the Jew stands above the Christian world, it is that he is" more merciful.. We have our weak¬ nesses. Some time.'; oiir manners are not as good as they might be. Some of us, it seems, speak too loudly, and so forth. But as far as mercy is concerned, it.is the rankest kind of presumption for a non-Jew to attempt to lecture the Jew on any lack of that quality.
A Gompers Anecdote I heard a good story related the other day of the late Samuel Gompers. Gompers, it seems at the time was an¬ swering some conservative who insisted that labor should be content; that if a thing had been good enough for the pre¬ ceding generation, the later generation, of labor ought to be content.
Gompers told the story of a mule that protested to its master. "My hours of work are terrible," said the mule, "and my rations; far from satisfactory.*'
"What are vou kicking about?" said the master. 'T worked yoiir father all his life. His hours were no shorter than yours, and I feed vou just as I fed him, yet not once did I he^r even so mucli as a syllable of protest."
"That may be true," replied the mule, "hnt please remember my father was an ass." ;
A Success Story It's a long time since we have heard the old kind of success 'stories. They perished of course with that crash in the Stock T^xchange of 1029.
In tile light of our present perceptions, those success stories seem wanting to¬ day. Perhpos we should ncer have al¬ lowed ourselves to be regaled with them, But one comhig today at least lias some¬ thing consolatory about it. So-1 record it herci
It is, the story of Harris N«vin a real estate operator of Queens. New York. He was well in. the fifties, when the crash came, so he iunied to other fields. He tumnd to bus oneration. And tod''v. the Nevins Bus T-ine extends almost over the whole countrv. Tbis'week stw tlie announcement of Kevin's [mrchase of a great bus Ww. through the Middle West, which has been added to the Nevin chain,
Hurok Comes Back And talking about come-backs after the cra.sh, it seems that Sol Hurok rp- fu^e-s tn irive in to the denrcssioii. H<' leaped ,into nrominenrc in the tbe-^trical world hv firct bringing over Chaliapin and such stars.
Thei! came bad. times for Hurok— even before the crash—and Hurok was forced into bankruptc". But he's hack again on T^foadwav with "n Italiin nov¬ elty of which "uich is ^fting written. Roxy'a City Since we've beirnn talking in this vein, let's continue for a little spell. Radio Citv is ft last heinir onened—a triumph for the Tewt«h "kon" of Roxv.
The corp'enits citv within a citv is a
triumph of th" vi^'oti of tV Jew who
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Other Ofiiccr.s Were Elected at Big Meeting Held Last Monday Eve¬ ning at Broad St. Temple
At the big meeting of Zion Lodge No. *i2, B'nai B'rith, held at the East Broad Street Temple, Monday evening, Decem¬ ber 2(ith, Harry Schwartz, 908 Carpen¬ ter Street, was elected President, suc¬ ceeding Robert L, Mellnian. Jack B. Wolstein was chosen Vice President. The other officers elected are: Warden, Isador W. Garck; Treasurer, Joseph C. Goodman; Trustee, Simon Lazarus; Secretary, Dr. Ralph A. Jaflfce. This was one of the best attended meetings of the year, over 250 members attend¬ ing.
In the early part of the meeting. Brother Abe A. Wolman arose and withdrew as a candidate for guardian, leaving the field to Frank V. Bayer, Louis A. Gertner, and Samuel Gnrevitz After the ballots were counted, an-
How the Jews Have Sunk In Poland
Dr. H. Rbsmarin
Vice-President of the Jewish Club olf Deputies in the Polish Parliament
Samuel Gurcvitz
npuncement was made by Secretary Jaffee that Samuel Gurevitz lead the ticket and will, therefore, fill the office of guardian during the coming yeari and ultimately become president of the: Lodge, T^he tellers who were respon¬ sible for the tabulation of the votes cast Monday for all the offices were as fol¬ lows: Morris Lbpper, William Weis- gpld, George Edelstein, and Jake Fried¬ man. .
The meeting was a great success in every respect. Over!$500.00 in dues was collected; a goodly nurabei- of suspended members were reinstated. It was defi¬ nitely announced by President Mellman that his successor, Harry. Schwartz, to¬ gether with the other newly-elected offi¬ cers, will be olhcially installed on Mon¬ day, evening, January &th. The install¬ ing officer will be Brother Edwin J. Schanfarber.
Rabbi Jacob Tarshish will he the pr,in- cipal speaker. The subject of his address will be, "The Jew Faces the Future."
Following this amiounccmcnt, Allan Tarshish gave a ten minute review of Jewish current events. A telegram was then read from the neiyly-elected Presi¬ dent who is away on hia honeymoon. He expressed his regrets at not being able to take part in the meeting.. The three candidates for outer-guard were then called upon for brief addresses. They all acquittetl themselves most admirably, pledging faithfulness, and etficicnt serv¬ ice to the Lodge regardless of, the out¬ come of the election.
Brother L W. Garek then delivered his report as vice-chairman of the Budget Committee. This report was ¦luianimously accepted. The Lodge then voted to present a diamond-studded Menorah to President Robert L. Mell¬ man for his exemplary labors in behalf of the Order. Walter Katz then intro¬ duced a motion to honor the oldestl liv¬ ing past president of Zion Lodge, Brother Leopold Myers. This motion was unanimously carried and Brother Myers will be the honor guest of the Lodge on "Past Presidents 'Night" which will be celebrated on Monday evening, January 23rd.
A stirring address, on the work of the Colimibiis Hebrew School w'as then made by Allan Tarshish* a member of the Board of the School. He appealed to Columbus Jewry to help the Board of Directors shoulder the resi>onsibility of maintaining this fine educational insti¬ tution.
Under the heading of Good & Wel¬ fare, the following made short talks: William A. Hersch, Ben Ratner, Meyer Ginsburg, Charles Steinhauser, Harry Kohn, Allan Tarshish, Lee J. Levinger, Sam Solomon, Leo Yassenoff, Abe Weinfeld, A. I, Goldberg, and H. J. Harris. Refreshments were then served, and the meeting ended with an inforhial get-together between the members and I (he nuwly-elected officers.
We arc so busy in Poland waging our daily struggle for our most elementary rights as citizens that we ourselves have failed to realize how in the midst of the struggle we have gradually slipped fur¬ ther downhill every day, how low we have sunk, we Jews in Poland.
Day after day wc find ourselves faced with this or the other restriction, with attempts to impose discrimination or humiliation upon us, .and wc have to take them up, we concentrate on details, and we lose sight of the question as a whole, we tend to forget the broad basic fact that not this right or the other matters, but the general principle that we. arc equal citizens of the country, whose equality of rights is officially recognized in the Pohsh Constitution and solemnly guaranteed in the international treaties.
Let us forget for a moment our varir ous. grievaiices, this, that or the other, the separate wrongs that arc committed against us with or without official cog¬ nizance, and let us compare our position today in tlic lump with what it used to. be years ago, and it becomes terrifying to- see how far hack we have gone, since before the war, and before the recon- stitution of the Polish state, in spite of all tile fine phrases about, liberty and justice, civilization, liberalism, minority rights, etc.
_ Lon^ before the world war, there were m that part of Poland which is called Galicia, and which did not belong to Russia, free and independent miinici- pal administrations, They were not found .in Congress Poland, which was under Russian rule, but they were a real fact in Galicia. Tlie population of the Galician towns, irrespective to the town councils, which appointed from among themselves the town administrations, right up to the head of the town, the Town President.
This applied to every town, hamlet and village, and to all citizens without any distinction, and since in many towns the Jewish population was overwhelm¬ ingly in the majority,, the Jews, as a matter of course, in the most natural way in the world, and wjth no attempt to hinder them, conducted the affairs of the town. Thus there were also many Jewish Town Presidents, who held the reins of town government in their hands. There were 'towns in which the Jewish majority struck one' iii the eye, so to speak, 'where it .was so,, unmistakable aiid so constant that it never occurred to anyone to suggest anything else than a Jewish Town President. No one dis¬ puted or questi6ned.it. Such big towns in Eastern Galicia as Strij, Samdar, Borislav, and many others, always had a Jew at the head .of their affairs, the official ruler of the town.
More than one town owes, its pros¬ perity and development . to its Jewish Town President, who always enjoyed the confidence of the whole of his pbpula- tibn, irrespective of creed or nationality.
The Polish population took it for granted that in accordance with the Constitution of the time, which pro¬ vided for equal duties and rights of citi¬ zen.'!, the majority of the town popula¬ tion had the right to apiwint one of their own as President of the town, and the rest had to accept it.
It happened very often, loo, that Poles ami other non-Jews helped to put a Jew in otTicc ill places where the Jewish votes alone would not have sufficed, because they considered him the best man for the post
But' with the rise of Independent Pclaiid there was an end to this natural and matter of course state of affairs. In the twitching of an eye there were more Jewish Town Presidents, and now people can hardly believe that they really remember a time when a Jewish Town President wa^ possible.
The towns in which there was a Jew¬ ish majority still have a Jewish major¬ ity. The election regulations arc un- changetl. The Polish Constitution pror claims that all citizens, irrespective of their religion or nationality, are equal and enjoy, equal rights, and yet there is not a single Jewish Town President to¬ day anywhere in the whole of the Polish state.
That is only one instance. It is sym¬ bolic of the whole of Jewish life in Po- ^id today. There is a Constitution which solemnly proclaims on paper that the Jews like all other citizens belonging to the national minorities . enjoy equal rights with all other citizens, but this right exists only on paper. There is not si trace of it in real life. There is not. even an attempt made to retain the right where it has already existed for years and was the most natural thing in the world.
Iii Galicia Jews used to hold many important official positions under, the old Austrian regime, As soon as the Polish state was set iip a movement was started to clear out all the Jews who held pub¬ lic office.; Now, after several years, the process has been triumphantly concluded. There are no Jews left in office even in Galicia. There are certainly none anywhere else in the Polish state. Ev,pry method has been used, clean and unclean, to clean Poland of the stain of having Jews in h'er public office;
16th Birthday of C. J. W. Will Be Celebrated on Tuesday, January 3rd
The Kith birthday of the Columbus Section, National Council of Jewish Women, will be celebrated with a lunch¬ eon and entertainment on Tuesday, Jan¬ uary Jlrd, Tho luncheon will be held at the Winding HoUow City Club at 12:30 p. ni., and the arrangements are in charge of Mrs. Frank A. Glick. A very novel meeting will follow the luncheon. Mrs. Nathan Gumble, first president of this section, will conduct a meeting in the manner in which the first meeting was held, while Mrs. Robert Levy, who is now president of the organization, will alternate her meeting with that of Mrs. Gumble's, Mrs, B. W. Abramson will play a number of piano selections.
The birthday cake will as usual be passed around for pennies for the Coun cil birthday.
Reservations for the luncheon can be made with Mrs. Frank Glick, FA. OTJll
As I See It
By A. M. N.
Big Voliner Celebration at Agudath Achim on Sun¬ day, January 1st
The installation banquet of the Voliner Society, will be held in the banquet ball of the Agudath Achim Synagogue, Washington avenue and Donaldson street, on Sunday evening, January 1st.
The installation of officers will take place at .¦"> :'iO p. m. with the following officers to be installed: Harry Beckman, President; Jerome Solove, Vice Presi¬ dent; A. Roinanoff, Secretary; C. H. Furman, Treasurer; and P. Rosen, Fi¬ nancial Secretary/
Following the installation, a banquet will be held. The principal speaker of the evening will be Prof; Theodore N.. Beckman of Ohio State University. Rabbis Isaac Wcrnc, Leopold Grcen- waid, and Mordecai Hirschsprung will also be.on Jhe-.program of speakers.
Cantor Emil Rosen, of Reading Road Temple, Cincinnati, will furnish the musical entertainment. A report of the activities of the society for the past twelve years will be given by Mr. Charles H. Furman. Mr. :Morris Jonas will be chairman of the meeting.
This affair, is open to ^11 members, and it is hoped that this celebration will be well reprcsentecl, Don't forget the time and place—Sunday evening, January 1st, at the Agudath Achim Congregation.
The process was started by the Na- /^ i' ¦ j^ • i d ' ¦ *
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lioiial Democrats when they gov the couiitry. It was part of their avow- edV antisemitic program. They carried their purpose. Poland was rid of all Jewish officials, all Jewish Town Presi¬ dents. No Jews in high places. No Jews as administrators of the Polish .state. And the present government, be¬ ing concerned only with words and solemn declarations about friendship to the Jews, keeps it so, and fixes the tra¬ dition—it is unthinkable that a Jew should hold any. office in Poland. Thus far has Polish Jewry sunk.
Rabbi Hirschsprung to Ad¬ dress Agudath Achim Open Forum, January 6th
Cantor Ansel Freedman Bids
Farewell to all Columbus
Jewry
"Dreams and Realities" is the subject upon which Rabbi Mordecai Hirsch¬ sprung will, speak on Friday evening, January 6, at the Agudath Achim Syna¬ gogue. His address will be given un¬ der the auspices of the Agudath Achim Open Forum which meets every Fri¬ day at 8 p. m., and will be open to all Jewish people who are interested.
Attendance at the Open Fortim meet¬ ings during the past two months has been very gratifying to the committee headed by Samuel Gurevitz. The com¬ mittee feels that much good has been accomplished through the lectures spon¬ sored and the discussions which ensue. Those who have been attending regu¬ larly are acquiring a better understand¬ ing of Jewish values' and are beginning to appreciate more deeply the role played by the Jewish people in world affairs past and present.
Among those who have ^addressed the Agudath Achim Open Forum ate Pro- nii«r|i i^i ni
fessor Albert R. Chandler, Ohio State {KaObl ^ I arshish tO Broadcast University, Allan Tarshish, Oscar A. .Brown and .A.aron M. Neustadt. The last two meetings were especially well- attended and it is hoped by the commit¬ tee that a good attendance will mark the meeting Friday evening, January 6th.
Cantor Freedman of the Agudath Achim Congregation, on the eve of his departure for the Holy land, takes this means of extending his fa.rewell to all. his friends and admirers of Columbus and central Ohio. Cantor Freedman has in the past six years become a very popular figure in the life of central Ohio Jewry. He has been active in numer¬ ous organizations and has'done especially fine work for the Zionist movement with which he has been identified for many years. On the way to the Holy Land, Cantor Freedman will appear in con¬ certs in New 'York, London, Paris and Naples. Those who are interested in communicating with him may address as follows; Freedman and Vilkis, P. O Box 42, Petach Tikvah, Palestine. A large number of friends accompanied the Cantor and his family to the depot Tues day evening, December 27th.
"Jewish Current Events"
"Jewish Ctirrenti Events," a. yireekly Jewish magazine which has won its way into the hearts and minds of young peo¬ ple, was recently founded by Jacob Lan¬ dau, President of the Jewish „Daily Bul¬ letin Co. and founder of ihe Jewish Telegraphic Agency in New "York, Rabbis and other educators, who have l>erusc<l every issue of "Jewish Current Events" since its inception on September 23, BI-S2, are convinced that it is filling a long felt need, not only in religious schools but also in the home. It is care¬ fully and intelligently edited by David J. Gaiter, an experienced Jewish nevvs- paperman and an authority on Jewish affairs.
Miss Anna G. Rosenthal, a former Columbus girl, is now identified , with "Jewish Current Events" in the capacity of National Field Representative. At the present time Miss Rosenthal is visit¬ ing relatives and friends in Columbus. She has been invited to address local religious schools on the program of Jew¬ ish Current Events and how it promotes a better understanding of Jewish prob¬ lems.
IS REELECTED SECRETARY
OF LOCAL B'NAI B'RITH
LODGE
NOTES FHOM THE JEWISH INFANTS' HOME OF OHIO
Contributions from the following were received at the Home: Mrs. Frank Glick and sons, in memory of Morris Broida; Mr. and Mrs. S. M, Levy, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gumble hi memory of Jacob Heldnian of Cincinnati.
Mr.s. S. M. Levy in her usual gracious and charming manner had Santa visit the childrt:it in person, at which time he distributed toys and candy. Mrs. Ben Office gave a treat of candy; Mrs. Carl Pilaris treated the children with candy; Robert Lewensohn donated a bike.
Moorcs and Ross presented the chil¬ dren with ice cream Santa Clauses; Mrs. Edward Davis gave a love treat to. the kiddies, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Kobacker presented toys; Mrs. Sam Meisner en¬ tertained the youngsters with a party; Allan Isaac Wolf remembered the chil¬ dren with a fine assortment of toys.
An assortment of infants' clothing was received from the Akron, Ohio, Sister¬ hood in memory of Mrs. I. J. Frank.
The Board of Directors are very grateful to tl\e above contributors. A visit at thtj home is always welcome.
Over Radio Station WLW Sunday 1:30 P.M.
Rabbi Jacob Tarshish has been in vited to conduct his Sunday lectures over WLW station. He begins tomorrow (Sunday) January 1st, at 1:30 p. m This station reaches the entire country and it is estimated that millions of peo¬ ple will be regular listeners. The de mand for printed copies of Rabbi Tarsh ish's lectures each Sunday over W. C A. 11. average several hundred weekly ft is estimated that thousands will be desiring these lectures when heard o\er WLW, ,.
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Herman Light Is Awarded a Medal for Drawing
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Herman Light, Ohio State University student', and graduate of East High School, was "recently awarded a medal for second prize in the National Bridge Building association contest.
There were 500 comi>ctitors, including students and professors from lit univer¬ sities in the contest.
Light made approximately 1000 copies of the pri7',e-winning drawing, and spent 86 hours working on it.
Mr. Light is the son of'Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Light, 202 East Lane avenue.
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A member of Zion Lodge No, 03, B'nai B'rith, who has always manifested the finest spirit of Jewish loyalty and consecration to high ideals is Dr. Ralph A. Jaffee, Main and IBth streets, who was unanimously re-elected as secretary for the coming year last Monday eve¬ ning, December 20th. Dr. Jaffee is ac¬ tive, in several local Jewish organiza¬ tions and is also popular among his col¬ leagues in the dental profession. His work as secretary of the Lodge has often brought forth favorable comment from the otliccrs as well as the rank and file of the members. The staff of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle congratulates Dr. Jaffee and wishes him continued success in hi$ splendid tabors on, b^alx of the Lodge.
There will be two Jews in the 1933 Utah State Legislature when that body meets the first week in January, Julian Bamberger, a son of the late Simon Bamberger, first non-Mormon to be elected governor of Utah, will sit in the Senate and Irwin Arnovitz, an officer of the Salt L;ikc City B'nai B'rith Lodge, will be in the Lower IIou.se. Arnovitz is a graduate of the University of Chicago and is a popular 'figure in the Jewish community of Salt Lake City,
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Governor-elect Lehman made his first appearance since hts election as Gover- iior of New York State before a Jew¬ ish audience at the Chanmikah dinner of the Jewish Education Association, last Sunday night at the Biltmore Hotel, New York. He has been intcreste<l in the work of the Association, since its in¬ ception eleven years ago and has done much to enhance its prestige and pro¬ mote its growth and development. ¦
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Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, wife of the noted philanthropist, arrived in Jerusa¬ lem last week. She is awaiting the ar¬ rival from Persia of her. son Edward, with whom she is to make a toiir of the Jewish colonies, accompanied. by Dr. Maurice Hcxter and Dr. Judah L. Magncs, Mrs. Warburg has always re¬ ceived a warm welcome in the Holy Land. On this visit she will be honored by many Jewish leaders.
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The first Yiddish Talkie from. Soviet Russia has been completed, ft is avow-, edly propagandist and tells the story of a young man who fle<l to America from Czarist persecution. He returns to Rus¬ sia after the revolution and takes part in the production of the new social order now obtaining there. The chidf role is [dayed by Michaels, the well-known actor of the Yiddish Govcrriment Theatre in Moscow.
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Columbus friends of Dr. Moses Gar- ber will be glad to hear that this promi¬ nent obstetrician has been elected chair¬ man of the Obstetrical and Gynecologi¬ cal Section of the Cleveland Academy . of Medicine. He recently received the degree of Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynec¬ ology at the Congress of the Ameitican College of Surgeons, He is an active Zionist and Hebraist and was chairman, of the Keren Hayesod Committee organ- ¦ ixed in 1021. We congratulate Dr. Gir- ber and wish Him success in his future 'activities.
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On Sunday evening, Decembier 2oth, Chicago Jewry witnessed the greatest spectacle of its kind ever presented.. This was the All-Chicago Channukah Fcsti- ¦ val pageant given in the Chicago Stadium under the auspices of the Zionist Or¬ ganization of Chicago and numerous, co¬ operative organizations. - With a^ cast of 1500 and an audience of over 25,000, few siiectacles in the history of the theatre have ever-approached the.proportions of' this celebration qf the Channukah lioli- day. . .
Joining with their 17,000,000 co-re¬ ligionists in ail parts of the world, Jews from many parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan united yi}i\\ those of. the Chicago Metropolitan area in this unusual observance of the Feast of Lights.
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Approximately 40% of those classed as blind today are expected to be able to avail themselves of the new telescopic glasses designed by Dr. Wni, Feinbloom of New York. The announcement of the discovery of the new telescopic lens was made in a paper read at the conven¬ tion of the American Academy of op¬ tometry in Chicago whercit was hajled as a great discovery by members of the aca'deiny^ According to its inventor, the new lens will restore to their useful activities persons with only 2% normal vision, now held totally sightless. Dr. Feinbloom is chief of the optometric staff of the West Side Hospital, a re¬ search Fellow of Columbia, and a con¬ sultant in the Bronx (New York) and Newark Optometric Clinics. * . :
Eduard Bernstein, distinguished So¬ cialist leader in Germany and founder of the ncAv school of scientific free thought, died in Berlin Sunday at the age of nearly 851. Wh^i he celebrated his BOth birthday a few years ago, most of the radical movements in Germany and else . where united to honor hini. Like most Socialists, he early became estranged from Judaism, yet time and again, his splendid intellect and courage readily battled against those who practiced or fomented anti-Semitism. Moreover, on the eve of his 80th birthday he reiterated his spiritual kinship and devotion toward the people from whom he stems.
Bernstein explained that he left the Tewish community in order to preserve Socialist party discipline which at that time demanded that its members leave their religious communities as.a protest against anti-Semitic hatred which was being preached by - the notorious Dr. Stoecker, Court Chaplain then ^^ fomider of the German anti-Seinitic movement. iJi'^
He made clear his position on X\(j^'^'¦ ism in an article published in the Berlin Forwaerts in a reply to an article by Dr. Karl Kautsky, another famous .So¬ cialist theorist, in which the latter op¬ posed Zionism as such, as an aid to Im¬ perialism. Bernstein declared that the Jews were building up a national home, on the basis of self-lilbor^in accordance,, with the Lca^Eue of Nations Mandatdn Denying the historic rights of the Jew^ ish neople iu Palestine and condemning Jewish Nationalism for expf^tling the Arabs, he declared tliat the ereat pia^. (Continued op l>age 2)

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Jewish Newspaper
Reaching Every Home
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
VOLUME XV—No. 105
COLUMBUS, OHIO, DECEMBER 30, 1932
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
By the Way
By David Schwartz
Harry Schwartz Becomes
President of Zion Lodge
No. 62, B'nai B'rith
A Chain Gang Fugitive
I have long wanted to comment on the case of Robert Burns, the chain gang iugitivc from Georgia—because as a native of that state, I was privileged to see sonic of the workings of the chain gang system—hut I was afrajonsibility of maintaining this fine educational insti¬ tution.
Under the heading of Good & Wel¬ fare, the following made short talks: William A. Hersch, Ben Ratner, Meyer Ginsburg, Charles Steinhauser, Harry Kohn, Allan Tarshish, Lee J. Levinger, Sam Solomon, Leo Yassenoff, Abe Weinfeld, A. I, Goldberg, and H. J. Harris. Refreshments were then served, and the meeting ended with an inforhial get-together between the members and I (he nuwly-elected officers.
We arc so busy in Poland waging our daily struggle for our most elementary rights as citizens that we ourselves have failed to realize how in the midst of the struggle we have gradually slipped fur¬ ther downhill every day, how low we have sunk, we Jews in Poland.
Day after day wc find ourselves faced with this or the other restriction, with attempts to impose discrimination or humiliation upon us, .and wc have to take them up, we concentrate on details, and we lose sight of the question as a whole, we tend to forget the broad basic fact that not this right or the other matters, but the general principle that we. arc equal citizens of the country, whose equality of rights is officially recognized in the Pohsh Constitution and solemnly guaranteed in the international treaties.
Let us forget for a moment our varir ous. grievaiices, this, that or the other, the separate wrongs that arc committed against us with or without official cog¬ nizance, and let us compare our position today in tlic lump with what it used to. be years ago, and it becomes terrifying to- see how far hack we have gone, since before the war, and before the recon- stitution of the Polish state, in spite of all tile fine phrases about, liberty and justice, civilization, liberalism, minority rights, etc.
_ Lon^ before the world war, there were m that part of Poland which is called Galicia, and which did not belong to Russia, free and independent miinici- pal administrations, They were not found .in Congress Poland, which was under Russian rule, but they were a real fact in Galicia. Tlie population of the Galician towns, irrespective to the town councils, which appointed from among themselves the town administrations, right up to the head of the town, the Town President.
This applied to every town, hamlet and village, and to all citizens without any distinction, and since in many towns the Jewish population was overwhelm¬ ingly in the majority,, the Jews, as a matter of course, in the most natural way in the world, and wjth no attempt to hinder them, conducted the affairs of the town. Thus there were also many Jewish Town Presidents, who held the reins of town government in their hands. There were 'towns in which the Jewish majority struck one' iii the eye, so to speak, 'where it .was so,, unmistakable aiid so constant that it never occurred to anyone to suggest anything else than a Jewish Town President. No one dis¬ puted or questi6ned.it. Such big towns in Eastern Galicia as Strij, Samdar, Borislav, and many others, always had a Jew at the head .of their affairs, the official ruler of the town.
More than one town owes, its pros¬ perity and development . to its Jewish Town President, who always enjoyed the confidence of the whole of his pbpula- tibn, irrespective of creed or nationality.
The Polish population took it for granted that in accordance with the Constitution of the time, which pro¬ vided for equal duties and rights of citi¬ zen.'!, the majority of the town popula¬ tion had the right to apiwint one of their own as President of the town, and the rest had to accept it.
It happened very often, loo, that Poles ami other non-Jews helped to put a Jew in otTicc ill places where the Jewish votes alone would not have sufficed, because they considered him the best man for the post
But' with the rise of Independent Pclaiid there was an end to this natural and matter of course state of affairs. In the twitching of an eye there were more Jewish Town Presidents, and now people can hardly believe that they really remember a time when a Jewish Town President wa^ possible.
The towns in which there was a Jew¬ ish majority still have a Jewish major¬ ity. The election regulations arc un- changetl. The Polish Constitution pror claims that all citizens, irrespective of their religion or nationality, are equal and enjoy, equal rights, and yet there is not a single Jewish Town President to¬ day anywhere in the whole of the Polish state.
That is only one instance. It is sym¬ bolic of the whole of Jewish life in Po- ^id today. There is a Constitution which solemnly proclaims on paper that the Jews like all other citizens belonging to the national minorities . enjoy equal rights with all other citizens, but this right exists only on paper. There is not si trace of it in real life. There is not. even an attempt made to retain the right where it has already existed for years and was the most natural thing in the world.
Iii Galicia Jews used to hold many important official positions under, the old Austrian regime, As soon as the Polish state was set iip a movement was started to clear out all the Jews who held pub¬ lic office.; Now, after several years, the process has been triumphantly concluded. There are no Jews left in office even in Galicia. There are certainly none anywhere else in the Polish state. Ev,pry method has been used, clean and unclean, to clean Poland of the stain of having Jews in h'er public office;
16th Birthday of C. J. W. Will Be Celebrated on Tuesday, January 3rd
The Kith birthday of the Columbus Section, National Council of Jewish Women, will be celebrated with a lunch¬ eon and entertainment on Tuesday, Jan¬ uary Jlrd, Tho luncheon will be held at the Winding HoUow City Club at 12:30 p. ni., and the arrangements are in charge of Mrs. Frank A. Glick. A very novel meeting will follow the luncheon. Mrs. Nathan Gumble, first president of this section, will conduct a meeting in the manner in which the first meeting was held, while Mrs. Robert Levy, who is now president of the organization, will alternate her meeting with that of Mrs. Gumble's, Mrs, B. W. Abramson will play a number of piano selections.
The birthday cake will as usual be passed around for pennies for the Coun cil birthday.
Reservations for the luncheon can be made with Mrs. Frank Glick, FA. OTJll
As I See It
By A. M. N.
Big Voliner Celebration at Agudath Achim on Sun¬ day, January 1st
The installation banquet of the Voliner Society, will be held in the banquet ball of the Agudath Achim Synagogue, Washington avenue and Donaldson street, on Sunday evening, January 1st.
The installation of officers will take place at .¦"> :'iO p. m. with the following officers to be installed: Harry Beckman, President; Jerome Solove, Vice Presi¬ dent; A. Roinanoff, Secretary; C. H. Furman, Treasurer; and P. Rosen, Fi¬ nancial Secretary/
Following the installation, a banquet will be held. The principal speaker of the evening will be Prof; Theodore N.. Beckman of Ohio State University. Rabbis Isaac Wcrnc, Leopold Grcen- waid, and Mordecai Hirschsprung will also be.on Jhe-.program of speakers.
Cantor Emil Rosen, of Reading Road Temple, Cincinnati, will furnish the musical entertainment. A report of the activities of the society for the past twelve years will be given by Mr. Charles H. Furman. Mr. :Morris Jonas will be chairman of the meeting.
This affair, is open to ^11 members, and it is hoped that this celebration will be well reprcsentecl, Don't forget the time and place—Sunday evening, January 1st, at the Agudath Achim Congregation.
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lioiial Democrats when they gov the couiitry. It was part of their avow- edV antisemitic program. They carried their purpose. Poland was rid of all Jewish officials, all Jewish Town Presi¬ dents. No Jews in high places. No Jews as administrators of the Polish .state. And the present government, be¬ ing concerned only with words and solemn declarations about friendship to the Jews, keeps it so, and fixes the tra¬ dition—it is unthinkable that a Jew should hold any. office in Poland. Thus far has Polish Jewry sunk.
Rabbi Hirschsprung to Ad¬ dress Agudath Achim Open Forum, January 6th
Cantor Ansel Freedman Bids
Farewell to all Columbus
Jewry
"Dreams and Realities" is the subject upon which Rabbi Mordecai Hirsch¬ sprung will, speak on Friday evening, January 6, at the Agudath Achim Syna¬ gogue. His address will be given un¬ der the auspices of the Agudath Achim Open Forum which meets every Fri¬ day at 8 p. m., and will be open to all Jewish people who are interested.
Attendance at the Open Fortim meet¬ ings during the past two months has been very gratifying to the committee headed by Samuel Gurevitz. The com¬ mittee feels that much good has been accomplished through the lectures spon¬ sored and the discussions which ensue. Those who have been attending regu¬ larly are acquiring a better understand¬ ing of Jewish values' and are beginning to appreciate more deeply the role played by the Jewish people in world affairs past and present.
Among those who have ^addressed the Agudath Achim Open Forum ate Pro- nii«r|i i^i ni
fessor Albert R. Chandler, Ohio State {KaObl ^ I arshish tO Broadcast University, Allan Tarshish, Oscar A. .Brown and .A.aron M. Neustadt. The last two meetings were especially well- attended and it is hoped by the commit¬ tee that a good attendance will mark the meeting Friday evening, January 6th.
Cantor Freedman of the Agudath Achim Congregation, on the eve of his departure for the Holy land, takes this means of extending his fa.rewell to all. his friends and admirers of Columbus and central Ohio. Cantor Freedman has in the past six years become a very popular figure in the life of central Ohio Jewry. He has been active in numer¬ ous organizations and has'done especially fine work for the Zionist movement with which he has been identified for many years. On the way to the Holy Land, Cantor Freedman will appear in con¬ certs in New 'York, London, Paris and Naples. Those who are interested in communicating with him may address as follows; Freedman and Vilkis, P. O Box 42, Petach Tikvah, Palestine. A large number of friends accompanied the Cantor and his family to the depot Tues day evening, December 27th.
"Jewish Current Events"
"Jewish Ctirrenti Events," a. yireekly Jewish magazine which has won its way into the hearts and minds of young peo¬ ple, was recently founded by Jacob Lan¬ dau, President of the Jewish „Daily Bul¬ letin Co. and founder of ihe Jewish Telegraphic Agency in New "York, Rabbis and other educators, who have l>eruscctitors, including students and professors from lit univer¬ sities in the contest.
Light made approximately 1000 copies of the pri7',e-winning drawing, and spent 86 hours working on it.
Mr. Light is the son of'Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Light, 202 East Lane avenue.
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A member of Zion Lodge No, 03, B'nai B'rith, who has always manifested the finest spirit of Jewish loyalty and consecration to high ideals is Dr. Ralph A. Jaffee, Main and IBth streets, who was unanimously re-elected as secretary for the coming year last Monday eve¬ ning, December 20th. Dr. Jaffee is ac¬ tive, in several local Jewish organiza¬ tions and is also popular among his col¬ leagues in the dental profession. His work as secretary of the Lodge has often brought forth favorable comment from the otliccrs as well as the rank and file of the members. The staff of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle congratulates Dr. Jaffee and wishes him continued success in hi$ splendid tabors on, b^alx of the Lodge.
There will be two Jews in the 1933 Utah State Legislature when that body meets the first week in January, Julian Bamberger, a son of the late Simon Bamberger, first non-Mormon to be elected governor of Utah, will sit in the Senate and Irwin Arnovitz, an officer of the Salt L;ikc City B'nai B'rith Lodge, will be in the Lower IIou.se. Arnovitz is a graduate of the University of Chicago and is a popular 'figure in the Jewish community of Salt Lake City,
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Governor-elect Lehman made his first appearance since hts election as Gover- iior of New York State before a Jew¬ ish audience at the Chanmikah dinner of the Jewish Education Association, last Sunday night at the Biltmore Hotel, New York. He has been intcresteage 2)